Dana Milbank | At March for Life, a cold reality is prevailing wind

2:53 AM,
Jan. 24, 2014

Dana Milbank

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Dana Milbank
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James Dobson's Focus on the Family asked Christians to pray for rain to fall on Barack Obama in 2008 when he accepted the presidential nomination. Various religious conservatives have said that hurricanes, earthquakes and other meteorological phenomena were divine punishment of wayward humans.

So what are we to make of Wednesday's March for Life on the Mall in Washington? The temperature was 12 degrees at the start of the annual anti-abortion event, the wind chill below zero, and participants were trudging about in snow and ice from the previous day's storm.